Zena Holloway is best known for her dreamy underwater photographs of celebs, supermodels and athletes. Her images are highly sought after by magazines, ad campaigns and editorials. She recently completed a 2 year project of “The Water Babies,” a book inspired by  Charles Kingsley’s 1863 classic tale. Holloway’s photographs were beautifully overlaid with illustrations by Heidi [...]

Have you been thinking about your wish list all year? If you haven’t finished all your Christmas shopping last week and need a pressie for the geek in your family…take a look at this list of geek-a-holic toys.  We have gathered our Bitrebels Author’s top items on their wish lists. From super geek and tech [...]

In my last post about iphone gadgets we showed you some of the hot iphone accessories for Autumn. Now that we are close to Christmas, I want to show you some fun and practical accessories you can still add to your christmas wish list. Take a look at the über handy multi USB extension iphone [...]

Leave it to Google to teach us how to rethink for the future. The way we use our computers is changing quickly and frequently. Now imagine your computer that runs a totally different operating system, one that utilizes ‘cloud computing,’ drawing resources, applications and data from web services vs internal software. Wa..wa..what you say? Exactly, [...]

So we’ve played around in wave a few weeks, while its fun and crazy at the same time when all your contacts are online at the same time. So until we all get a wave account, what else can we do? Have you had a look at Wave Extensions? A Wave extension is a robot [...]

Have you been schlepping around your loyalty cards in your wallet? Switched purses and forgot to bring all your cards? Alas, there is a solution. I am loving the “CardStar” phone app, which allows you to manage all of your membership and rewards numbers in one place. There are over 19 categories with vendors and stores from [...]

I had to laugh when I received a email this week titled “Confessions of a Creative Mind.”  Filter, one of the national agencies located in Seattle, is calling all creatives to confess their  secrets, white lies and fibs on their website.. “We all have ‘em, and we’ve all told ‘em.  Maybe you have a tattoo [...]

Sometimes we are so consumed with the ‘brilliant idea’ factor, that are eyes and minds don’t think of the obvious, the user experience or the common good of the products and services we design. Even though most of us are graphic and web designers, I find this (older) TED video by Paul Bennett, Creative Director at [...]

The new release of the much anticipated 27″ imac has all of us mac lovers drooling. I spent the other morning perusing apple.com, reviewing the sleek design of the all-in-one imac. The 27″ display dominates all the way to the edge. No distractions, no mimics. Everything you see is intentional, not a mm of waste. [...]

In just a few days the Olympic torch will be lit and the countdown to the games will begin. Vancouver has been preparing for this grand event for years, building new facilities, hotels, streets and making surrounding cities a beautiful experience for the thousands of people traveling to Canada. I am very excited to watch [...]

Lately I’ve been thinking about scaling down ‘the clutter’ in several areas of my life. I don’t live in a ginormous house, nor do I drive a massively large car, but I do have stuff that collects dust, takes up room and I don’t use often. Every now an then, I go through my boxes, [...]

Gone are the days of the sexy Marlboro Man, who made smoking appealing, manly and part of the cowboy way. Tobacco advertising is one of the most highly regulated forms of marketing today.  Canada is one of the leading anti-smoking advertisers in the world, compared to some of the middle eastern countries and Russia, where [...]

A couple of weeks ago I decided to ask my Bit Rebels team members to send me a picture of them when they were younger and answer a few question about their childhood. I have always thought it fascinating that we grew up in completely different parts of the world, are roughly the same ages [...]

Legos were one of my favorite toys to play with as a kid. The engineering brain in me constantly wanted to test the laws of gravity, pushing the boundaries of lego’s building capabilities. I still remember the day my Mother sold our lego chest. I was 15 and hid my tears as a young mother [...]

In my personal art, I love to manipulate everyday objects, taking them out of their original context and therefore transforming their meaning. When I stumbled upon Japanese artist Yuken Teruya, I was immediately drawn into his paper cut-outs using toilet paper rolls. Looking through his beautiful portfolio, Teruya’s gift is obvious and prevalent in his [...]

For all of us who can’t wait for the snow to cover the mountain tops with enough of the powdery stuff so we can GET OUT THERE and ride the slopes…….. this post will hopefully get your mind focused on boarding {again}. I’ve previewed the Burton Endeavor and Salomon and hand picked my favorite designs. [...]

Love this Turkish edition ad for the New York Times, Turkish Edition, featured by Designflux an online mag, focusing on motion graphic design. The designers at Imago used actual pages from the first issue of Turkish Edition to create the ‘newspaper’ texture effect to portray well known landmarks of NYC and Istanbul. Not only is [...]

When I was a young girl, I loved to dress up my dog, Duke, an English Setter, who let me do just about anything to him, without moving much more than his ears. I remember dressing him up in my clothes and hats, posing him and taking pictures. Those were my humble beginnings as a [...]

I’m sure you’ve noticed my love for bringing art into the home. Today I want to share this collection of fantastic wall clocks. Seems like most of the designs I really love are from Italy, one of my favorite countries for art and culture. Even though I can’t stand ticking sounds, I can appreciate a [...]

I want to say a big thank you on behalf of our team to our loyal readers. With over 1 million page views during the last handful of months we must be doing something right. : ) If you have visited Bitrebels frequently during the last few weeks, you will have noticed some updates to [...]